Spam and phishing in 2018

...of spam in email traffic in 2018 decreased by 4.15 p.p. to 52.48%. Proportion of spam in global email traffic, 2018 (download) The lowest share (47.70%) was recorded in April...more…

Threats to users of adult websites in 2018

...87,227 unique users downloaded porn-disguised malware in 2018, with 8% of them using a corporate rather than personal network to do this. In 2018, the number of attacks using malware...more…

IT threat evolution Q1 2018. Statistics

...download malware disguised, for example, as browser updates. That is how the Korean banking Trojan Wroba was distributed. This malicious resource shows a fake window while displaying the legitimate site...more…

Exploring Emotet: Examining Emotet’s Activities, Infrastructure

...wreaks havoc: We did a comprehensive research on Emotet’s artifacts — 8,528 unique URLs, 5,849 document droppers, and 571 executables collected between June 1, 2018 and September 15, 2018 —...more…

What are botnets downloading?

...for examples: take Gandcrab and Trik, or Locky and Necurs, for instance. Every day we intercept numerous file-download commands sent to bots of various types and families. Here we present...more…

August Patch Tuesday: A Tale of Two Zero-Days

...affects Adobe Acrobat by permitting the embedding of certain file types in its reader. Adobe also addressed the vulnerability on their end by blocking the embedding of these file types...more…

Spam and phishing in Q2 2018

...25, 2018. Back then spam traffic was limited to invitations to participate in workshops and other educational events and purchase software or databases. We predicted that fraudulent emails were soon...more…

Microsoft Patch Tuesday for May Includes Updates for Actively-Exploited Vulnerabilities

...For May 2018, Microsoft’s monthly release of security updates — also known as Patch Tuesday — addressed a number of vulnerabilities, most notably two vulnerabilities that were already...more…

DDoS Attacks in Q4 2018

...on October 17, 2018, the service can support attacks with a capacity of up to 420 Gb/s based on just over 16,000 bots infected with Bushido IoT malware, a modified...more…

Spam and phishing in Q3 2018

...(Microsoft Publisher). Messages were sent to the email addresses of credit institutions in different countries, and the PUB file attachments contained Trojan loaders for downloading executable files (detected as Backdoor.Win32.RA-based)...more…

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